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Lawmakers in the Senate Intelligence Committee are moving forward with a request that would order the Defense Department and U.S. Intelligence agencies to create a public, unclassified, collection of all information and data on “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” also known as unidentified flying objects, UFOs.
According to The NY Post, Senators recognized the existence of a “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force” and the need for a comprehensive analysis of unidentified flying objects.
“In his report attached to the 2020-2021 Senate Intelligence Authorization Act, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, instructs the director of national intelligence, the secretary of defense and other agency heads to compile data on ‘unidentified aerial phenomenon,'” according to The Post.
originally posted by: Trueman
I'd vote for anyone from any party who can make that happen.
I wonder how The Senate Intelligence Committee got the idea. Who between them suggested it, or it came from an external demand?
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: 727Sky
You live in, at least on the surface, a Democracy that included the right for your public to know what your government spends THERE tax money on.
But is it a good idea to give out Data to anyone, Data that may contain sensitive information that could be used to track and monitor your nations own sensitive air craft development projects or would that be against your best interests when and where it comes to national security.
Does national security OVER RULE the right to know, obviously it should but does it.
As for other types of Data that do contain information about genuinely unknown craft I believe that your right to know AND investigate is actually in your nations national security interests.
Why, well common sense really, the general public and the data they gather and research is among some of the best intelligence - if not the most reliable - that can be trawled by national security agency's and if they and government information about UFO's (that are not secret test programs) are collated by the many dedicated civilian researchers.
This Data that they can then gather from the independent civilian researchers can then actually help your own Security agency's and military keep track of not only unknown's but also of potential hostile incursions by unfriendly foreign powers (and give them a clue as to the other sides hidden capability's).
Therefore I think that within certain limitations what these representatives are asking for is entirely reasonable and even very beneficial BUT then there are those certain limitation's that remain remain and to put that in a nutshell as best I can Agency's should NOT disclose information that may compromise national security interests such as secret air craft development projects - for example a sighting of an unknown in an area were testing is occurring may be something you would not want the public to investigate - even if the object seen was a genuine unknown as it may lead those members of the civilian research community to open a potential can of worm's that may prove harmful to the integrity of the security surrounding any secret development being carried out in such an area.
It may clear thing's up for the public but could be entirely counter productive as not only the public would then have free unhindered access to this but also enemy's of your nation would.
This is a dangerous world full of backstabbing international psychopaths in places of very high power, never more dangerous than when they are all smiling at one another and even in times of tension such as today threat's may still come from unexpected sources, to compromise national security at a time like this is actually a fool's action.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: 727Sky
You live in, at least on the surface, a Democracy that included the right for your public to know what your government spends THERE tax money on.